Yeah, I work 60 hours a week and 6 days a week, I don't have the kind of progress other people have but I should be 50 within a week, two at worst. I'll most likely be using all my leve allowances on Saturday because my play time is so lopsided, that's the only full day I can dedicate to it..
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Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn |OT| World Full. Try again later. Please Understand
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Yeah, I work 60 hours a week and 6 days a week, I don't have the kind of progress other people have but I should be 50 within a week, two at worst. I'll most likely be using all my leve allowances on Saturday because my play time is so lopsided, that's the only full day I can dedicate to it..
aw man, i was questing on my arcanist and i suddenly saw a bunch of people log off and then i get kicked out. try to login 1 minute later and it says the world is currently full
Same thing happened to me about 10 minutes ago on Sarg
I have this same issue with the Windows edition of the game... unfortunately my character is registered to the standard edition of the game, NOT the collector's edition. I've submitted a ticket to request help switching my character over to the collector's edition; no response yet. :/
Freakinchair
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The easiest solution is to implement an afk time-out. You know, like what every other online game in existence does. I mean, I logged on yesterday morning to do some things and saw a cat person standing by the guildleve guy - 9 hours later I log back on and he is still there. There really is no excuse for this and I don't understand why they're not mentioning anything about it.
Robin64
Member
No!
With the way the servers are acting currently you'd get kicked off for entirely unrelated reasons anyway.
Save the planet
If want to save yourself the frustration when you get back from work, you definitely should.
This is a large part of why it's so difficult to get in, though.
Sir Griffith
Member
Ethically, that would be wrong. You're screwing over people who are ready to play when you aren't.
Logically, its a good idea since servers are so fucked at the moment that it's the easiest solution to gaurantee playtime later.
Your choice.
Rockandrollclown
lookwhatyou'vedone
While you could get kicked off during the day, its definitely your best option to be able to play tonight.
Edvardelis
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No, if you're outside the level the quest can't be turned in.
Lavalamp1138
Member
Quests lock you out from collecting rewards if you are under the level req.
Edit: beaten
DidntKnowJack
Member
The PS3 version of this game is bizarre. It is literally the PC version dumped on to the PS3 right down to having a mouse cursor, hot keys for a keyboard, and just an all around confusing UI that a lot of console only players are going to find overwhelming. Including me, though I am getting used to it.
My other big complaint is - why are there no waypoint markers in this game? Like, you choose a quest and it shows up on the map as a waypoint? Or is that considered a no-no for MMO's? It is such a pain in the ass to find anything on the shitty map system. Even if you go to your journal, find the current quest, and see where on the map it's supposed to be. Even then it's confusing as fuck because you can barely see the icon.
Such a sloppy port. No wonder this was only 40 bucks.
My other big complaint is - why are there no waypoint markers in this game? Like, you choose a quest and it shows up on the map as a waypoint? Or is that considered a no-no for MMO's? It is such a pain in the ass to find anything on the shitty map system. Even if you go to your journal, find the current quest, and see where on the map it's supposed to be. Even then it's confusing as fuck because you can barely see the icon.
Such a sloppy port. No wonder this was only 40 bucks.
Jewologist
Banned
Is anybody in this thread playing on Malboro Server or am I the only one? Just wondering if anyone has put together a link shell for it or not.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
I think AFK timers are lame and should be an option only, except when there are server problems like this.
If they're going to restrict logins at all then they need to flush AFKs regularly. Wonder if they can implement it in a way that if the server population reaches a certain threshold, AFKs start getting booted.
chickdigger802
Banned
which are leve again? Are those the, hunt x monster in this time period and you can adjust their level?
haven't really bothered with those... been mostly just doing the quests around the zones of my level and getting decent level. hmmm...
spandexmonkey
Banned
After running the first dungeon last night, is aggro an issue for gladiators or was my tank just bad? I was playing an archer and I always stripped it off the tank at about 60% health while healer had to tank adds.
Huh? There is a gamepad-specific UI and it works really well.
And there are indeed quest waypoints. It marks your map either with orange circles to show the general area of where you need to be, or with actual markers if it's a specific spot. Can't imagine what else you'd want. You can zoom in on the map with L1+right stick while it's active.
How can you tell what edition your character is registered to? I got the CE items on my character, is that how you can verify?
I wouldn't put much stock in anything in the first 3 dungeons. Seems to hit or miss player performance wise. They are tuned pretty easy so just about anyone can tank the damage.
DidntKnowJack
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If there's a gamepad specific UI, I haven't found it. This is literally one of the most confusing UI's I've ever used. Keep in mind, I'm not a PC gamer, and I haven't played an MMO since the PS2 version of FF XI which I thought had a decent UI. It certainly wasn't this confusing.
As far as the waypoints, they don't show up for me, or if they do, I can barely see them. They certainly don't show up on the circular map that's always on. edit: Maybe I need to adjust the gamma or something.
Game starts at 50, or so they say.
It's really easy to hit 50 with your main class, but you still have crafts and gathering to level up, materia to create and affix to your gear, hight level dungeons and fates to run (Behemoth, for example), and hard mode primals and the upcoming Crystal Tower that should be interesting with its 24-man raid.
An extra week would be good, but I'm not overly worried about it right now. I still have like 14 days left from 1.0 status and an additional 30 from my new copy. SE may try to avoid it as much as possible so they can start making money off of subs asap.
Robin64
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Couldn't disagree more. The UI is wonderfully done with controller buttons displayed at the bottom and the XMB style menu system for Everything Else.
I have both PC and PS3 versions and I've been playing on the PS3 far more. The real 360 degree movement on a pad feels really good, too.
Edit: Does your UI look like this?
Its to easy to avoid that's why its not implemented, the game has an auto run button so everyone would just auto run into the wall and how would the game know? SE just needs to get this server shit sorted out and fast, at least do us the favor and tell us how they plan on fixing it.
About the UI can PS3 users connect a keyboard and mouse and play with PC UI? If I remember correctly you could with FFXI on PS2 so its odd if they taken out that feature in FFXIV.
Quests have their own minimum levels that you have to be at when completing them, so in general you can't do this.
In fact, you can accept and complete a quest in your starting class and not be able to get your reward because your level is too low. I started developing a Marauder and took a quest outside the La Noscea gates which involved inspecting some spots and then defeating the level-7 monsters that appeared. I managed to defet those monsters at level 3, not least because a fellow adventurer was nearby and healed me when I was in danger, and when I went to get the reward, the icon was red rather than green: not because I had help, but because I had to be level 4, minimum.
Got another 15 EXP and all was well.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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There are bad tanks, but dps and healers also need to have a degree of restraint. Without more details about how all of you were playing, it's hard to say.
chickdigger802
Banned
well hopefully they get their shit together soon. Shitty launches have never really pushed people to sub to mmos lol.
And for some reason this is probably the first monthly mmo i've dabbled in, which you DON'T have to put in a credit card # to play
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Archer is one of the prerequisites so you're ok.
It's really not all that confusing. Your UI should look like this. Each icon corresponds to a button on your controller. So in that image if you want to use one of the two primary attacks, you'd hold/press R2 and hit Cross or Circle respectively.
It was so intuitive by the time they got to Phase 3 of beta I used it for most of the beta. Even healed with it no problem.
You can toggle 360 degree movement in the options on the PC version, be you using a keyboard or a gamepad.
Isn't the CE upgrade its own code that comes with the PC CE game that you apply to get the CE bonuses?
Are you sure you have the controller UI active? You could switch between the two in options but the default should be a controller cross bar with the typical console menus. Unless you have a mouse and keyboard plugged in, it should be default, there are 2 different UIs/hotbars available and you could actually mix them up.
GuitarGuruu
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1017 will be the death of me.
Animal
Banned
Unable to get NA/EU Group character list
I just had to restart the game after it patched itself.
Freakinchair
Member
Auto-Running doesn't work any online game I've played... the afk detection detects keyboard inputs - if there hasn't been any inputs in a certain amount of time then you get the boot. The only way they can truly fix this (other than buying new servers and upping server capacities) is to implement an afk timeout and actually use the queue system. What good is a queue system when nobody ever logs out?
A lot of people on here have shown disdain for afk timeouts but I really don't understand it. Server capacity is always going to be limiting factor... if I have to re-login after 30 mins of me being away then it is a small price to pay to actually be able to play the stupid game I bought.
Robin64
Member
If only our friendly fellow players weren't just logging in then going to work/school..
But yes, I don't get the dislike some people are showing about having an AFK system.
DidntKnowJack
Member
Wow. It might be because I had a keyboard plugged in? I was using that for inputting text on the setup of the game. I wonder if that will fix it because no - my UI was weird. It certainly wasn't a XMB style thing. I'll have to try that later tonight.
It depends. Do you feel like the tank did too little to hold hate or were you doing too much to strip it?
Both sides need to be considered.
That said, there are bad tanks. Especially right now when theyre sought after, some people might just take it up because its a fast track to getting shit done and they dont really ever care about learning.
If youre stripping hate and the healer is tanking adds, Id say that the tanks skills were lacking.
I'm playing a tank but haven't partied, and it's the first time I've ever played a tank (played mainly a magic user WHM/RDM in FFXI) so I don't have much experience to impart, but just going by what people have said in the thread thus far it seems harder than most people are used to keep enmity control going properly.
chickdigger802
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and everytime i see that, i'm losing a bit of interest in the game.
Freakinchair
Member
well hopefully they get their shit together soon. Shitty launches have never really pushed people to sub to mmos lol.
And for some reason this is probably the first monthly mmo i've dabbled in, which you DON'T have to put in a credit card # to play
The reason you haven't needed to put in a credit card yet is because everyone got a free month. In late september you'll need to put something in I'm sure.
GuitarGuruu
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And just as you post that I got in!
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